Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J. K. Rowling

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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.

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xicanti Another take on the whole boy wizard idea, albeit a decidedly darker one.
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Unionhawk Both good fantasy series. Lord of the Rings is a slightly more difficult read though...
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cransell The first in an enjoyable series of stories about a young witch at boarding school.
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SomeGuyInVirginia White's tale of glory and sorcery.
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kerravonsen Children's fantasy, check. Protagonist who doesn't know he's a magician/wizard, check. Schooling in magic, check.
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TomWaitsTables You want an explanation? Read The Books of Magic; if you loved Sorcerer's Stone, which is about an ordinary boy discovering a whole new world where he finds a future larger than he had ever imagined, you will love Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic. If you ever find yourself thinking that after an awful lot of sequels and years of a multi-billion dollar franchise being squeezed for every Knut, that the world of Harry Potter has lost its magic, I urge you to rediscover it again in The Books of Magic. There is nothing else to say; there is only awe and wonders.
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jfoster_sf This is a great fantasy series about a brother and sister who are sent to live with their grandparents for the summer. When they arrive they are amazed at how much land their grandparents own-a vast forest, expansive grounds, and a beautiful garden. When Seth goes to explore the forest (although his Grandfather has clearly forbidden it), he meets Muriel, a cunning witch who tries to capture him. This meeting soon unlocks a great secret that their grandparents have been guarding for many years. This is an exciting, funny, and mysterious fantasy that I highly recommend reading!
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jfoster_sf Although this series isn't at all about magic, it's about an ordinary boy (11) who finds himself in a strange land and must go on a dangerous quest to save an underground civilization. This is the first book in an exciting series by the author of The Hunger Games.
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kaledrina Older YAs and above. Really for late teens and adults. Potter meets Narnia meet sex drugs and rock n roll.
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Inky_Fingers Even without magic in it, Tom Brown's School Days is an exciting read, and a book that was a major inspiration for the HP series.
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andejons Both are excellent adventure stories about mistreated orphan boys who suddenly find themselves in a magical world that they have to defend from an unspeakable evil, with the aid of new friends and invisibility cloaks.
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bookmomo What if harry Potter had been older when he found out what he was... Koch's book is enjoyable for Potter fans
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readafew Another excellent Young adult series. More Sci-Fi than fantasy but a great read.
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Alliebadger Both fun and exciting YA fantasy stories that are written very well!
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Vonini Both accounts of a boy growing up and studying magic. And both excellent books.
paradoxosalpha Grady Hendrix remarked: "Peter Straub already wrote a literary fiction version of Harry Potter when he wrote Shadowland ... way back when JK Rowling was only 15 years old."
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carlym Both Rowling and Fforde create magical worlds that intertwine with the real world.
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anonymous user This book just may be America's answer to the Potter series. November in Salem features November Atwood, a teenage girl who travels back to 1701 Salem Village, Massachusetts to bring to an end a bargain between the village church elders and a diabolical entity hungry for souls.
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mene Harry Potter gaat over een middelbare school voor tovenaars, verborgen voor mensen die niet kunnen toveren. Het levende labyrint (en de andere boeken in die serie) gaat over een universiteit voor tovenaars, verborgen voor mensen die niet kunnen toveren.
ckm63 The Imagicators takes the idea of magic to a new level. It's based on the power of your own imagination, and the whole world where the book takes place was itself imagined by someone else!
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andyray for those youths today, the missouri of 1860-70 is magic through twain's pen.
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Member Reviews

2,317 reviews
⚡️✨ Accio childhood memories! ✨⚡️

So, I just revisited the wizarding world via "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and nostalgia hit me harder than the Hogwarts Express at Platform 9¾. As a certified Potterhead (no shame here), I'll try to be unbiased... but who am I kidding? The biased glasses are on, and I'm rocking them like Harry rocks his lightning scar.

Firstly, if you haven't read this, you're basically living under a cupboard under the stairs. Hogwarts letters are clearly lost in the mail for you.

Pros:
Em Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal, o leitor é apresentado a Harry, filho de Tiago e Lílian Potter, feiticeiros que foram assassinados por um poderosíssimo bruxo, quando ele ainda era um bebê. Com isso, o menino acaba sendo levado para a casa dos tios que nada tinham a ver com o sobrenatural pelo contrário. Até os 10 anos, Harry foi uma espécie de gata borralheira: maltratado pelos tios, herdava roupas velhas do primo gorducho, tinha óculos remendados e era tratado como um estorvo. No dia de seu aniversário de 11 anos, entretanto, ele parece deslizar por um buraco sem fundo, como o de Alice no país das maravilhas, que o conduz a um mundo mágico. Descobre sua verdadeira história e seu destino: ser um aprendiz de feiticeiro show more até o dia em que terá que enfrentar a pior força do mal, o homem que assassinou seus pais, o terrível Lorde das Trevas. O menino de olhos verdes, magricela e desengonçado, tão habituado à rejeição, descobre, também, que é um herói no universo dos magos. Potter fica sabendo que é a única pessoa a ter sobrevivido a um ataque do tal bruxo do mal e essa é a causa da marca em forma de raio que ele carrega na testa. Ele não é um garoto qualquer, ele sequer é um feiticeiro qualquer, ele é Harry Potter, símbolo de poder, resistência e um líder natural entre os sobrenaturais. A fábula, recheada de fantasmas, paredes que falam, caldeirões, sapos, unicórnios, dragões e gigantes, não é, entretanto, apenas um passatempo. Harry Potter conduz a discussões metafísicas, aborda o eterno confronto entre o bem e o mal, evidencia algumas mazelas da sociedade, como o preconceito, a divisão de classes através do dinheiro e do berço, a inveja, o egoísmo, a competitividade exacerbada, a busca pelo ideal a necessidade de aprender, nem que seja à força, que a vida é feita de derrotas e vitórias e que isso é importante para a formação básica de um adulto. show less
This was such a treat! This is my third time reading the book, and this time around I chose to listen to the audiobook. I've heard the Jim Dale version--so actually this probably be my fourth time round. I managed to track down the UK audiobook version and Stephen Fry was an absolute delight to listen to; he nailed the characters perfectly.

The first time I read this book, I was reading it to my oldest daughter. She was between 5-7 at the time (we were late to the Harry Potter craze). She's 22 now and it boggles my mind that this book is 20 years old. It was fantastic then, and it held up over the years.

I never forgot how much more Hermione was in the books than she was in the movie. But Harry...I forgot how sweet and innocent Harry was show more in the beginning. Later he becomes more petulant and you can see why the sorting hate wanted to put him in Slytherin, with his "any means necessary" attitude. But here, in the first book, he's just an emotionally and physically abused boy, who is unwanted by his remaining family. He just wants to fit in and receive affection, and he finally finds it when he gets to Hogwarts. Never was there a better example of picking the family that's best for you than this book.

I enjoyed re-reading (listening) to this again, and I look forward to getting to the rest of the series. If you haven't heard the Stephen Fry version of the book, I highly recommend it!
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I read the first three Harry Potter books when they first came out, but never finished the series. Now, as a 28 year old, going through and giving the books the sit down they deserve, I have no regrets!

Before reading them this time I was told that I would probably have enjoyed them more when I was younger, but that is simply not true. Rowling does a wonderful job at really making you empathize and connect with Harry and what he is going through. You feel the magic at Hogwarts yourself just as Harry would upon arriving for the first time. You feel sad for him and happy for him at all the right moments.

I think that the lack of constant reminder that Harry is actually just an 11 year old boy makes it more enjoyable than most books that show more star a teenager or younger main character character. I feel like, in other books, when the main character is younger the author plays upon his age as a big part of plot and the choices that character makes, but this is not at all the case with Harry Potter. You don't care that you are a 28 year old reading about an 11 year old's journey because you wish you could be experiencing it all the same for yourself, at the age you are now!

The first book is wonderfully magical in all the right ways, and leaves you hanging on every word. I found myself undertaking to memorize each detail so that I could completely immerse myself in the rest of the novels as if living through them, myself!
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Kurzmeinung

Nach Jahren des Verweigerns dieser Reihe ist 2020 nun für mich die Zeit für Harry Potter. Jedes Buch benötigt eben seine richtige Zeit.
Ab Seite 1 war ich mitten im Leben von Harry. Mir kam es so vor, als wäre ich nicht nur stille Leserin, nein, ich glaubte wirklich dabei zu sein.
„Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen“ konnte mich überzeugen, auch wenn ich es nicht erwartet hätte.

Klappentext

Bis zu seinem elften Geburtstag glaubt Harry, er sei ein ganz normaler Junge. Doch dann erfährt er, dass er sich an der Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei einfinden soll – denn er ist ein Zauberer! In Hogwarts stürzt Harry von einem Abenteuer ins nächste und muss gegen Bestien, Mitschüler und Fabelwesen kämpfen. Da ist es
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gut, dass er schon Freunde gefunden hat, die ihm im Kampf gegen die dunklen Mächte zur Seite stehen.


Meine Meinung

Cover
Das Cover dieser Jubiläumsausgabe „20 Jahre Harry Potter“ war unter anderem ein Grund, mir dieses Buch nun dann doch endlich zuzulegen. Iacopo Bruno hat meines Erachtens ein Meisterwerk erschaffen. Mit all den verspielten Einzelheiten des Rahmens, den zauberhaften Darstellungen von Harry, Hermine und Ron, sowie dem Schloss „Hogwarts“ und dem „Hogwarts Express“ entführt das Cover bereits in die Welt der Magie.

Umso genauer ich das Cover, und die Rückseite betrachte, um so mehr Einzelheiten fallen mir auf und begeistern mich. Ob es nun der „Goldene Snitch“ neben Harry, die Eule mit den vielen Briefen oder eben das Zugticket von Gleis 9 3/4 (neben dem Barcode) sind. All diese liebevoll gestalteten Illustrationen erzählen einen großen Teil der Geschichte.

Handlung/Setting
Erst einmal habe ich mich gefragt, ob die Welt noch eine weitere Rezension zu diesem Buch benötigt? Denn die bisherigen Erfolgsrekorde sprechen eindeutig für diese Buch. Auch wenn ich mich dem Buch und seinen Nachfolgern bisher verweigert habe, muss ich die Frage einfach mit „Ja“ beantworten. Einfach weil ich meine Eindrücke loswerden will.

Von Beginn an wurde ich sofort in die Welt von Harry im Ligusterweg 4 hineingezogen. Sicher hatte ich die Filme bereits gesehen, und wusste also, was im Buch auf mich zukommt. Doch die Tyrannei, die Harry in seinen Kindheitstagen bei seinem Onkel, seiner Tante und seinem Cousin ertragen musste, fand ich im Buch einfach noch viel emotionaler beschrieben und ich hätte diesen Dursley’s zu gerne mal die Meinung gegeigt.
Als es dann endlich nach Hogwarts ging und die magische Geschichte um Harry, Hermine und Ron seinen Lauf nimmt, war ich wie verzaubert. Die detailreiche Beschreibung der Umgebung (Hogwarts, verbotene Wald etc.) und die genaue Beschreibung der einzelnen auftretenden Charakter, machte das gesamte Harry – Abenteuer zu einem absoluten Lesevergnügen.
Alles war schlüssig, es gab keine aufgesetzten Unterhaltungen. Der Ablauf der Handlung war absolut nachvollziehbar.
Daher habe ich wahrlich mitgefiebert und freue mich auf die weiterführenden Bände.

Da es schon eine Weile her ist, seitdem ich die Filme gesehen habe, war ich ehrlich gesagt, ein wenig überrascht von der Wendung am Ende. Aber irgendwie wusste ich innerlich noch, dass Professor Snape hier nicht der Bösewicht war und auch nicht sein konnte.

Schreibstil
J.K. Rowlings Schreibstil ließ mich zwischenzeitlich immer wieder glauben, dass die Geschichte um Harry und seine Freunde aus der Realität entstammt. Die Autorin hat es wirklich geschafft mich nicht nur mit Augen und Gefühlen, auch mit Haut und Haaren, in die fantastische Welt hineinzuziehen. Die lockere und leichte Art zu schreiben hat es mir sehr einfach gemacht von Seite 1 an tief in die Welt von Hogwarts eintauchen zu können.

Meine Sterne
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Fazit
„Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen“ konnte mich mit jeder einzelnen Seite begeistern. Ich denke, es war richtig von mir, auf den richtigen Zeitpunkt zu warten, die Reihe zu beginnen. Und ich wurde in keinster Weise enttäuscht. Werde ich nun zum Potterhead? Ich bezweifel es, aber ich freue mich auf Band 2 und heute Abend werde ich mit den Film zu „Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen“ gönnen.
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"Back Fang, back!"
I love that, plan on answering my door like that from now on.

Okay, okay, okay. I finally relented, after more than 25 years of its popularity, I read the mega hit Harry Potter. i haven't even seen the movie. I live mostly happily under a rock of my own choosing.

One opinion was the tipping point for me, though. One of my Littles, my 8 year old granddaughter read this with her mom and loved it. I get it now.

It was good. It was very good.

Listened via Hoopla audio, excellent narration by Jim Dale.

(Made me wish that another heroic story would have turned out so well. The one about the battle against the Orange Voldemort.)
This one holds up y'all.

Reading through Harry Potter with my 11yo now that we've caught up Rick Riordan's massive corpus. Even though this is definitely one of the weaker books in the series (more below), it's still so much better than anything else we've read together (excepting Narnia). There is a straight-faced whimsy to Harry Potter that makes them, well, magical. Reading them is simply *delightful* and all the emotions I had reading them as a child were brought back up as if they'd never left.

Sorcerer's Stone definitely suffers from first-book-syndrome, as Rowling feels out the universe and characters. Those are forgivable and understandable errors though, and don't detract from the joy the novel brings.

Very excited to read the show more rest of this series with my son and already looking forward to taking my other children through it when they're old enough. show less

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J. K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in Gloucestershire, U. K. on July 31, 1965. She also writes fiction novels under the name of Robert Galbraith. Rowling attended Tutshill Primary and then went on to Wyedean Comprehensive where she was made Head Girl in her final year. She received a degree in French from Exeter University. She later took show more some teaching classes at Moray House Teacher Training College and a teacher-training course in Manchester, England. This extensive education created a perfect foundation to spark the Harry Potter series that Rowling is renowned for. After college, Rowling moved to London to work for Amnesty International, where she researched human rights abuses in Francophone Africa, and worked as a bilingual secretary. In 1992, Rowling quit office work to move to Portugal and teach English as a Second Language. There she met and married her husband, a Portuguese TV journalist. But the marriage dissolved soon after the birth of their daughter. It was after her stint teaching in Portugal that Rowling began to write the premise for Harry Potter. She returned to Britain and settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister, and attempted to at least finish her book, before looking for another teaching job. Rowling was working as a French teacher when her book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published in June of 1997 and was an overnight sensation. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone won the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, and received a Commended citation in the Carnegie Medal awards. She also received 8,000 pounds from the Scottish Arts Council, which contributed to the finishing touches on The Chamber of Secrets. Rowling continued on to win the Smarties Book Prize three years in a row, the only author ever to do so. At the Bologna Book Fair, Arthur Levine from Scholastic Books, bought the American rights to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for the unprecedented amount of $105,000.00. The book was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for it's American release, and proceeded to top the Best Seller's lists for children's and adult books. The American edition won Best of the Year in the School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Parenting Magazine and the Cooperative Children's Book Center. It was also noted as an ALA Notable Children's Book as well as Number One on the Top Ten of ALA's Best Books for Young Adults. The Harry Potter Series consists of seven books, one for each year of the main character's attendance at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. All of the books in the series have been made into successful movies. She is number 1 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. She has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. She won the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award. In 2016 she, along with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, published the script of the play Harry Potter and the cursed child. It became an instant bestseller. Rowling's first novel for an adult audience,The Casual Vacancy, was published by Little Brown in September 2012. She made The New York Times Best Seller List with her title Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination. She published two bestselling fiction novels under the name of Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
Original title
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Alternate titles
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (US) (US)
Original publication date
1997-06-26
People/Characters
Harry James Potter; Hermione Jean Granger; Ronald Bilius "Ron" Weasley; Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore; Severus Snape; Lord Voldemort (show all 31); Quirinus Quirrell; Rubeus Hagrid; Minerva McGonagall; Neville Longbottom; Vernon Dursley; Petunia Dursley; Dudley Dursley; Fred Weasley; George Weasley; Percy Ignatius Weasley; Draco Malfoy; Vincent Crabbe; Gregory Goyle; Mr. Ollivander; Dean Thomas; Filius Flitwick; Firenze; Ginevra Molly "Ginny" Weasley; Lavender Brown; Lucius Malfoy; Molly Weasley; Oliver Wood; Parvati Patil; Peter Pettigrew; Nicholas Flamel
Important places
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland, UK; Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, England, UK; Forbidden Forest, Scotland, UK; London, England, UK; Diagon Alley, London, England, UK; Gringotts Bank, London, England, UK (show all 8); King's Cross Station, London, England, UK; Platform 9 3/4, King's Cross Station, London, England, UK
Related movies
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001 | IMDb | Chris Columbus); Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001 | IMDb)
Dedication
for Jessica, who loves stories,
for Anne, who loved them too,
and for Di, who heard this one first.
First words
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Quotations
The wand chooses the wizard, remember…I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter…After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things - terrible, yes, but great.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer. . . ."
Publisher's editor
Little, Christopher
Original language
English UK
Canonical DDC/MDS
823.92
Canonical LCC
PJ5124
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Languages
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ISBNs
680
UPCs
15
ASINs
282